Re: Of Yarn and Source Code

From: Richard Steiner (rsteiner@skypoint.com)
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 12:07:38 -0600 (CST)

On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Frank G. Pitt wrote:

> In article <TJaE18XCDzUL092yn@nada.kth.se>,
> d96-mst-ingen-reklam@nada.kth.se (Mikael St=E5ldal) wrote:
> >
> >You are correct, Java has no console support except stream output to s=
creen
> >via stdout/stderr and stream input from keyboard via stdin. And that i=
s of
> >course inadequate for Yarn.
>=20
> Only if you _insist_ on using a text mode screen.

I suspect that some of the folks here are like me, and have absolutely
zero interest in a GUI newsreader. =20

I use Yarn because it works in all of the places I want to be, whether
it's in a DOS session or in DOS itself, in a fullscreen VIO session, or i=
n
a window if need be alongside a PM app. In the case of Linux, I spend
almost all of my newsreading time in fullscreen consoles, so the same
would apply to me in that context as well.=20

I think a graphical newsreader with Yarn's layout and keystrokes is a nea=
t
idea, but please don't do that to the exclusion of a text-based app...

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